[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] linux-firmware: update, merge in OE classic updates, fix packaging

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:33, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
> Op 11 okt. 2011, om 15:14 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven:
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 05:33, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>> Op 10 okt. 2011, om 14:35 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven:
>>>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 09:26, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>>>> Op 10 okt. 2011, om 14:22 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven:
>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:27, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> Op 10 okt. 2011, om 03:03 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven:
>>>>>>>> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 07:06, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Update: move to latest SRCREV, use non-kernel.org URI
>>>>>>>>> Merge: wl12xx symlink + packaging, install all firmwares
>>>>>>>>> Fix: * all entries in PACKAGES are in PROVIDES already
>>>>>>>>>     * A package always RPROVIDES itself
>>>>>>>>>     * A file can only get packaged *once* so only one rtlwifi package will get the license
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I dislike the idea of one single package with all firmwares. I prefer
>>>>>>>> to have many small packages but one meta that depends on it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not going to make a patch to subpackage *all* the firmwares. If you can give me a list of the ones you use I'll make a patch to split those out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Leave the ones that exist now and move the rest to ${PN}-others so
>>>>>> people can test using it and split from it  when need.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't see the value of naming the unsplit firmwares something else as ${PN} at this point, OE classic doesn't have it either.
>>>>
>>>> This make clear that useing the others package is a workaround and
>>>> thus people can submit patches to add a specific package and move out
>>>> to it. Using PN would make it to easy to forgot.
>>>
>>> It would also break existing users for linux-firmware, so I propose to let this patch go in as-is and have people with strong opinion on package splitting send a follow up patch.
>>
>> You merged packages, they were split already.
>
> This commit doesn't merge subpackages, it splits off the wilink ones and packages previously unpackaged firmwares into ${PN}

I'd prefer to have it all splitted and a package with what is not
included so people would be easily aware of the missing ones and with
an easy way to test.

My 2c. only; I don't decide about the patch going in or not.

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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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